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Janet Daley on Americans embracing government engineering just as Europe's crack-up proves its dangers.

Nov. 14, 2012 5:46 p.m. ET

Columnist Janet Daley writing in the London Telegraph, Nov. 10:

The United States has now acquired an electorally powerful liberal bourgeoisie who are convinced, as their European counterparts have been for several generations, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that public spending is inherently virtuous, that poverty can be cured...